Educational and Research Farm «Vorzel»

The 'Vorzel' Educational and Research Farm was established in 1997, and prior to that time, on the initiative of Prof. P. Pshenychnyi and K. Sviechyn, it held the status of the beef cattle breeding research station of the UAA (Ukrainian Agricultural Academy). Under the general supervision of Prof. K. Sviechyn between 1961 and 1981, the staff of the station, the veterinary faculty, and the zooengineering faculty published 10 volumes of the research station's proceedings, which elucidated the specifics of the formation of meat productivity in cattle of various breeds under different levels of energetic nutrition and housing of the animals.

The station's employees developed a technology for the alternating feeding of animals during the intensive rearing of cattle for meat, which was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine, and they created the Ukrainian beef breed (A. Ugnivenko, V. Tkachuk). Based on the station's materials, under the supervision of Professor K. Sviechyn, 8 doctoral and 52 candidate's dissertations were defended.

Pursuant to Resolution No. 12978/87 of the CMU (Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) dated 09.07.1997 and Order No. 189 of the NAU (National Agrarian University) dated 30.07.1997, the status and name of the Dairy Cattle Breeding Research Station were changed to the 'Vorzel' Educational and Research Farm, and in connection with the renaming of the NAU to NUBiP of Ukraine, the 'Vorzel' ERF received its current name from 1 January 2009 – the Separate Subdivision of NUBiP of Ukraine 'Vorzel Educational and Research Farm'.

The 'Vorzel' ERF has 600 hectares of agricultural land in its use, of which 280 hectares are arable land.

With the outbreak of Russia's full-scale military aggression (24 February 2022), the 'Vorzel' ERF found itself under occupation and could not perform its functions. By a decision of the rectorate, in order to preserve the animal husbandry potential, the relocation of the herd to the Separate Subdivision of NUBiP of Ukraine 'O. Muzychenko Velykosnitynske Educational and Research Farm' was organised. This work was carried out in a highly organised manner over the course of several days.

After the liberation of the territory, the farm faced new challenges: the fields were mined, and executing technological operations for crop care and harvesting grain crops without conducting demining measures was impossible. Following the implementation of such measures, it was possible to harvest crops from only 64% of the sown areas.

The main task for the 'Vorzel' ERF in the near future is the complete restoration of the farm's activities, encompassing both its production sphere and the base for the practical training of students, founded on the principles of innovation and the use of new technologies.

HISTORY

• In 1946, on the territory of the modern Separate Subdivision of NUBiP of Ukraine 'Vorzel' ERF, there was an educational farm of the Kyiv Veterinary Institute, which in 1958 became an educational and research farm of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

• Pursuant to Order No. 189-K of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR dated 26 March 1960, the Beef Cattle Breeding Research Station was created on the basis of the educational and research farm of the educational division of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

• From 1964, the BCBRS (Beef Cattle Breeding Research Station), via the UAA, was subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR.

• From 1992, in accordance with the Law of the Ukrainian SSR 'On Enterprises, Institutions and Organisations of Union Subordination Located on the Territory of Ukraine', the BCBRS was granted the status of a legal entity and the status of an educational and research farm of a higher agricultural institution under the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine (Decision No. 36/5 of the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn District Council of People's Deputies dated 11.02.1992).

• Pursuant to Resolution No. 500 of the CMU dated 25.08.1992 'On the Creation of the Ukrainian State Agrarian University', the BCBRS remained under the subordination of the newly created USAU.

• Pursuant to Resolution No. 158/94-VR of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dated 29.07.1994, the BCBRS remained under the subordination of the newly created NAU.

• In accordance with Consent No. 12978/87 of the CMU dated 09.07.1997 and Order No. 189 of the NAU dated 30.07.1997, the status and name of the BCBRS were changed to the 'Vorzel' Educational and Research Farm.

• By Order No. 124 of the Rector of the NAU dated 10.03.2005, the 'Vorzel' ERF was reorganised into the Separate Subdivision of the National Agrarian University 'Vorzel Educational and Research Farm' (2 Krupskoi St., Vorzel urban-type settlement, Kyiv region).

• On 1 January 2009, by Order No. 827 of the Rector dated 15.12.2008, the Separate Subdivision of the NAU 'Vorzel' ERF was changed to the Separate Subdivision of NUBiP of Ukraine 'Vorzel' ERF in connection with the renaming of the NAU to NUBiP of Ukraine.

• Since 1958, the farm was subordinated to the UAAS (the legal successor of which became the NAU).

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

• creating the necessary conditions for conducting students' educational and industrial placements, carrying out the practical training of students according to the profile of their chosen speciality, and improving the qualifications of specialists in accordance with the curricula and programmes of NUBiP of Ukraine;

• creating the necessary conditions for conducting scientific research work by academic and research staff, doctoral candidates, postgraduate students, and undergraduate students, and implementing scientific developments into production;

• creating modern material, technical, and social bases for students' education, as well as for the scientific research and scientific-innovative activities of the academic and research staff of NUBiP of Ukraine;

• implementing scientific developments into production in accordance with the scientific and thematic plan of NUBiP of Ukraine;

• cultivating and selling crop and animal husbandry products, developing new technologies, creating new breeds and lines of livestock, selling pedigree young stock to agricultural enterprises of various forms of ownership and management methods, as well as to other consumers, and carrying out the processing and sale of products of its own production;

• providing services, executing works, and carrying out non-commercial activities without the aim of making a profit;

• processing products of its own production and selling them;

• implementing measures regarding environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources.